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Why is it women with a low level of education and foreign backgrounds who find it most difficult to enter the labour market? Yevgeniya Averhed, project manager at Folkuniversitetet in Uppsala, wanted to investigate this question. To find the answer she founded a project through the Nordplus Adult programme, in which she – together with colleagues from around the Nordic region and Lithuania – carried out a study.

The project “Learning with companies” aims to improve cooperation between educational institutions and companies in the Nordic-Baltic area.

Education in modern society should not only provide learners with solid knowledge of the subject, but also develop their abilities to think and to find innovative solutions to complex problems. However, teachers often don’t know how to organise their teaching in a way that promotes the learners’ creativity and makes them better thinkers. The Thinking Approach (TA) to language teaching offers tools for integrated development of both language and thinking skills for learners.

Through intercultural learning activities, senior citizens in Lithuania, Latvia, Estonia, Finland and Sweden was encouraged to interact with others by sharing cultural heritage and life experiences – both on a virtual platform and during face-to-face meetings.

The Nordplus Higher Education network Explorations and Collaboration in the Arts (ECA) gathered over 70 university dance, music and film students from the Baltic and Nordic countries in Copenhagen to explore the idea of collaboration in dance and music. The results of the workshop are now available as a short documentary film – shot by students participating in the project.

The KUNO network promotes cooperation, exchange and professional debate within highert art education in the Nordic-Baltic region. One of the many projects of the network has been to analyze the fascination of the paranormal at different levels. What is the role of the paranormal and "otherworldly" in today’s society?

Can children learn neighbour-languages from listening to a good story told by an inspiring storyteller? Absolutely – that is the experience from the project "Hugin & Munin".

There are few things that cross boundaries as easily as music, making it a perfect starting point for international cooperation and exchange.

By arranging international study trips, supporting international participation and sharing ideas and knowledge, the Shared Visions-project improves both teachers’ and students’ skills, as well as the education.  The project aims at creating a Nordic-Baltic creativity and partnership network between the involved countries; Finland, Norway, Lithuania and Estonia.

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